English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)
SECURE or SECURED?
She has a ~secured~ job so she wasn’t bothered (nonstandard).
She has a secure job so she wasn’t bothered (standard).
When something is certain to remain safe and unthreatened, it is said to be secure and it is in such context an adjective. Other example sentences are:
His position as party leader is no longer secure. ✔️
Make your home as secure as possible. ✔️
Moving on, “secured” is the past tense and past participle of “secure” when used as a verb:
We have secured a hotel for the guest speaker. ✔️
Police secured the area for months. ✔️
GAB
